Lavatory appurtenance.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 1907.

J. s. BURN.- LAVATORY APPURTENANGE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG- 20. 1906.

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No. 872,894. I PATENTED 1120.3, 1907.

- J.S.BURN.

LAVATORY APPURTENANCE.

A'PPLIOATION FILED AUG. 20, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SOWERBY BURN, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MAX TONNIES, OF HULL, ENGLAND.

LAVATORY APPURTENANGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed August 20 1906. Serial No. 331.4:12.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SOWERBY BURN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, in the Kingdom of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Lavatory Appurtenance.

This invention has for its object a little device for holding the soap, nail-brush, toothbrush et cetera, so that a perfect system of drainage shall ensue, enabling the soap tablet after use to become almost immediately-dryand hard, which conduces effectively to its durability through its not allowing the tablet to remain soaking in water on a level surface, as is customary in soap dishes. By this means a great amount of wastage and much uncleanliness is avoided. It is indeed a wellknown fact that a cake of soap to last, must be kept in as dry a state as possible. This invention insures this, through the soap being suspended as it were in air, only touched by the ridges of the flutes hereafter described. Consequently however carelessly the soap may be placed in this sanitary soap tray, almost all liquid matter will at once drain off it, leaving the tablet clean, dry, and hard. By this means the usual injury to the soap caused by the holes at the bottom of existing trays being filled upwith soap in a gelatinous state is avoided, and the whole appears more cleanly.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a general view of my appurtenance; Fig. 2, a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the appurtenance arranged to hang against a wall.

My invention consists of a tray A formed of preferably a somewhat flat center field a, and fluted sides a projecting outward at an angle of say 30 degrees from the horizontal. On the flat or other smooth surface in the center, a rounded and fluted cone B having a ring of projections b on the bottom is placed. This cone is made hollow with a center hole G at top to enable tooth-brush stems such as C or other stems to be placed in it so as to stand upright. The projections b at bottom form openings for the passage of liquid. The soap tablet D, nail-brush E, et cetera, are placed in the hollow between the central rounded cone B, and the tray A, touching thegse latter only at the apices of their ridges a The device can be made of any material,

such as glass, wood, porcelain, enameled iron, and can be formed as a tray or as a block with upper grooved surface. In action, if the hollow in the center of the dish gets covered with water, the whole can be turned on the side, and the water run out, or the central cone can be removed, and the dish turned on edge.

If desired the bottom of the tray A can be provided with an annular rib F which forms a stop for the handles of the tooth brushes to keep them approximately upright.

In thus describing my invention, I do not bind myself to the exact shape of these two surfaces (1 b and their angles can be varied very largely without interfering materially with the advantages of the apparatus.

Then it is desired to provide an appurtenance which can hang against a wall, it is arranged as shown in Fig. 3 in which case the part of the tray which rests against the wall is flattened so as to form a bearing surface H with a hole I by which the device can be hung on a nail. The tray, also the fluted cone B, as in the example shown being made in the segment of a circle.

. I declare that what I claim is 1. A lavatory appliance, comprising a tray having an upwardly inclined fluted surface, a hollow tapered member resting on the tray, and having its outer surface fluted, the lower edge of said hollow tapered member being provided with projections to form spaced drainage channels, and said tray and tapered member being so located relative to each other, that an article placed between the same will rest upon .the apices of the fluted portion of both the tray and the tapered member.

2. A lavatory appurtenance comprising a tray having a flat center field and inclined sides, and a hollow taper body with center hole and ring of projections at bottom, placed on the flat field, both the inclined sides of the tray and the outside of the cone being fluted or channeled so that any article placed between them will touch only the apices of these channels, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name this 10th day of August 1906, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SOWERBY BURN.

WVitnesses:

' G. O. DYMOND,

T. S. SHILLINGTON. 

